Xiao Qi’s 3D Murals
- A Chinese street artist, Xiao Qi, is drawing praise online for intricate 3D relief murals this week. (x.com) - Posts report the works as detailed 3D reliefs and described by one thread as “the best in years,” with 27 likes and 641 views. (x.com) - The reaction highlights renewed interest in sculptural mural techniques and how social posts surface technique-specific acclaim. (x.com)
A Chinese relief-mural artist known as Xiao Qi is picking up fresh attention online for wall works that turn flat surfaces into carved, architectural scenes. (douyin.com) Xiao Qi, listed on Douyin as 壁画师小琪（鲁班艺术）, is based in Chongqing and posts videos of large wall reliefs built around the Great Wall, temple complexes, horses and other traditional motifs. Her Douyin profile shows 1 million followers and 15 million likes, and the latest listed post date is February 25, 2026. (douyin.com) Baidu Baike describes her as a creator focused on wall-mounted relief murals and links the account to Yubei District Luban Art Studio in Chongqing. The same entry says one Great Wall relief video reached 811,631 likes and that her account had 1.844 million followers and 14.977 million total likes in data compiled through April 2025. (baike.baidu.com) Relief murals sit between painting and sculpture: the image is built outward from the wall, so light and shadow do part of the drawing. Xiao Qi’s videos emphasize that effect by showing ridgelines, roofs, stairs and stonework projecting several centimeters from the surface. (rwimagazine.com) That helps explain why short clips of the work travel well online. TikTok reposts identifying the artist as Xiao Qi describe dragons, elephants, temples and the Great Wall rendered with layered depth and texture, turning construction footage into process videos as much as finished-art showcases. (tiktok.com) Her posts also show how Chinese creator platforms have made technique itself part of the attraction. Baidu Baike says her videos include full-process jobsite footage, and Douyin’s visible catalog repeatedly tags the work as 浮雕壁画, or relief mural, alongside 制作过程, meaning production process. (baike.baidu.com, douyin.com) The account has already broken out before this week’s English-language praise. Baidu Baike says Xiao Qi ranked fifth on Douyin’s monthly Blue V art-creator list in August 2024 and hit No. 1 on several daily art rankings in April and May 2025. (baike.baidu.com) What viewers are reacting to now is not a debut so much as a format crossing platforms: a Chongqing mural maker with an established Douyin audience is being rediscovered through reposts that foreground depth, texture and handwork. The same qualities that make the walls look built rather than painted are what make a few seconds of video stop a scroll. (douyin.com, tiktok.com)
